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  1. J.Quondam

    OOTS 1326: Back Up Top

    Aww. It's like infernal acne.
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    Judges Guild Makes Statement About Goodman Controversy [Updated]

    What a mess. I've really been hoping this would sort out in a good way. I'm not interested in CSIO, but I wanted to feel okay about getting the Caverns of Thracia OAR when it gets into shops. However, reconciling my desire to support Jennell Jaquays' legacy versus propping up this guy doesn't...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    "The Super Strawberry Cheddar Cheese Three Wolf Moon is Almost Here: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!" I mean, how do I get by in life without that??
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    So I don't actually misread it, but whenever i see the title of that thread, my brain tries to morph it into a famous lyric... "Fireball and lightning, chromatic orb is frightening me! / Galileo galileo galileo figaro. . . ." ...or something. And then i spend the next hour trying to get that...
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    D&D General How Long Did You Play Only D&D Before Trying Another Game

    Not long, less than a year. I started with basic D&D in 1983, and becm stayed my main thing til end of high school. But in my first few years, we also played some James Bond, Star Frontiers, Marvel, Indiana Jones, maybe a couple others. Plus some of us were big into Star Fleet Battles, so we...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    A lot of pop science articles (and even researcher PRs) are notoriously bad about sensationalist headlines and overstating the importance of results, no thanks to our click-hungry online media environment. Anyway, here's a few non-paywalled articles that go into a little more in depth on that...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Just a little OT quibble, but... That 99.7% number applies to the certainty that astronomers have detected a particular pair of molecules in that world's atmosphere, not that life exists there. Where those molecules come from* is an open question not addressed by that research. * Life is a...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    pecan . . . baklava . . . ? . . .
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  10. J.Quondam

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Only if the baguette is really, really stale, i think?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    .... But if I assaulted someone with a baguette, I'd get deported, right?
  12. J.Quondam

    What are some alternate ways to think about archetypes?

    Fate Accelerated uses "Approaches" that, in that system, serve sort of like the Abilities in D&D and modify a character's actions. (Except they're about "how" a PC does something rather than what specifically they do.) Those might serve as starting point for your personalities: Careful, Clever...
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    How long before you tire of a thread here?

    Just to pick a number, probably around a 100-ish? posts is when I'm done. Except for very active threads, it seems somewhere around there is when most threads have boiled down to a few particularly vested users discussing whatever tangent they've gone onto. Also, when a thread I'm interested in...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    From the taco video: "I don't have the lived experience to properly relate to those who purchase this," is the best thing I've heard this year so far. And it applies so very, very perfectly to so much in the world beyond salsa.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Test: Is delete posts new? I don't recall seeing that feature here. ETA - Result: I don't see delete post option.
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    In-person Game cancelled. What do you play?

    Hungry Hungry Hippos
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    For those who don't play D&D (or its clones), what keeps you engaged with EN World?

    Yeah, I appreciate the familiar format, and find the moderation to be generally very good. But for me the main draw (aside from the general topic) is the size: there's probably just a few dozen really regular posters, plus a couple hundred other semi-regulars. It hits a "comfy" sweet spot...
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    Warning points visible?

    This surfaced a few months ago, in an older thread. Relevant posts start here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/on-warning-points.674161/page-2#post-9598363 No real info in there, i don't think, but there it is if you want to take look.
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    For those who don't play D&D (or its clones), what keeps you engaged with EN World?

    Habit, mainly. Fortunately, EN World is way healthier than most of the rest of social media.
  20. J.Quondam

    Most influential RPG

    So it's not the rules liten-ess alone, but the rules lite + genre specificity that really caught the lightning in a bottle? I think that's a pretty compelling argument. It also just occurred to me to suggest another ultralite that goes way back: RISUS, first developed in 1993, iirc, though i'm...
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